AG ordered to submit proper fuel distribution mechanism for essential services

The Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney General to submit a proper fuel distribution mechanism for the essential services.

The court issued this order today (14) when two fundamental rights petitions filed by the Sri Lanka Bar Association (BASL) seeking an order urging the government to prepare a long-term and short-term program for the continuous supply of essential services including fuel, food, electricity, and medicine.

These petitions were summoned today before the three-member Supreme Court bench of Justices Vijith Malalgoda, Mahinda Samayawardena and Arjuna Obeysekera.

The Attorney General submitted an affidavit of the Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy, explaining the purchase and distribution of fuel.

Details about the volumes of fuel to be purchased by the government, the payments made and the measures taken for the proper distribution were presented to the Court through the affidavit.

However, the President’s Counsel Uditha Igalahewa, who appeared on behalf of the Sri Lanka Bar Association, pointed out that the arrangements made on the matter are unsatisfactory.